Computers

Some computers come with it all in this pathetic little box. You know what? Windows lets you decide how to shape your computer. You do what you want with what you decide to get. I also think that Windows computers have the ability to look the coolest.
 
I chose Unix even though I use Linux, since Linux is a Unix-clone.

I decided to switch from Windows to Linux when I heard about how Microsoft oRABhores a lot of its work to India and similar countries, even though Bill Gates and Co. made their fortune here in America.
 
XP pro, picked it up cheap on e-bay, doesn't swallow your system whole like Vista.
Given that I'm building my own system price is all important.
 
Hey Rip,

Can you Up/downgrade vista to XP? I am growing wearing of the litany of programs that do not interface well with the V beast.

This may be a stupid sounding question but I am 80% Amish.
 
I use Vista Home Premium at home. I support XP Pro and Server 2003 at work and I doubt we'll ever go to Vista (or office 2007 for that matter).

I have to say I've had a very good experience with Vista at home. I use my home computer mostly for digital photography, downloading music and making CD's, Office 2003, Internet, and I use my Vista pc as a music server for my MP3 network appliances. It is fine for all of these functions. I definitely had 'driver' issues in the beginning (I bought it and installed it the day Vista was released). I knew full well that drivers would be an issue, just like when I upgraded to XP. I'm not a gamer, so I have not had the slowness problems the gamers are experiencing with Vista.

At work XP Pro seems to work just fine and is very reliable and easy to support. We went through several upgrades (95, then NT Workstation, then 2000, now XP pro). Nobody wants to go through another upgrade unless there is a very good reason to do so.
 
It would be a full uninstall of Vista with a fresh install to XP. Any files you want to save would need to be burnt onto CD or put on a memory stick, (the larger ones at any rate, Floppies only take 1.44Mb.
You're looking at a day doing this.
The main problem with any MS product is the security issues, which is the main selling point for Unix/Linux.
 
Due to the nature of my job I have to deal with many different operating systems. I triple boot between XP, Vista and Ubuntu(Linux) on my Home PC and on my laptop I dual boot between XP and Ubuntu.
 
I just have to say:

Wha?

Ok, now to the question. Myself, I use XP pro on my desktop, and run Kubuntu on my laptop. I tried Vista out for a month or two and didn't like it.
 
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